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prove to belong to this subspecies when further material is available for comparison. 

 A female labelled " Mkubwa " (stated by Dr. L. Vari, in correspondence, to be 

 " Bwana M'kubwa," a small town near N'dola, Northern Rhodesia) belongs with 

 little doubt to the nominate subspecies. More material from this area should show 

 whether this is an accidental occurrence or whether the boundary between this 

 subspecies and geometroid.es lies somewhere between Bwana M'Kubwa and Solwezi 

 (some 150-200 miles north-west of the former). 



Material examined. Type. Holotype $, Natal, Durban, ii. 1867 ; Drepanidae 

 genitalia slide No. 1011 ; in the British Museum (Natural History). 



Other material. British Museum {Natural History). Natal: i g, Durban, 

 ii.1905 (Cooke) ; 6 $, 6 $, Durban, 1903 ; 16 <$, 16 $, Durban, xi.1900, viii.1901, 

 21. x. 1908, 9.iv,vii.i909, VU1-6.X.1922 (Leigh) ; 1 $, Durban, iv.1908 (Fontaine) ; 

 1 $, Krantzkloof, 21.1.1918 (Hargreaves) ; 3 <$, Pinetown. Cape Province : 1 <$, 

 Grahamstown. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. Natal : 4 £, 3 $, Durban, 1906 

 (Leigh), i.i.1910 (Cooke), iv.1919 ; 1 $, Nyalazi R., ix.1910 (Bell-Marley) ; i<$, 



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Fig. 102, Negera natalensis natalensis, $ genitalia (dorsal view) 



